Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
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There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.
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There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
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I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay.
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All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shores our bed and eats at our own table.
Herman Melville in Moby Dick
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